Location: I'm surprised you guys are so big on rap, considering it's the most masochistic music of any genre.

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dude the other day my immediate superior (who does fuck all in the way of supervision) brought up something about how we have to worry about saying merry christmas and I was just like... have you actually got in trouble for that? has the company ever put out a memo that you must say happy holidays? no one cares, say what you want

literally people say merry christmas all damn day, this is totally in her mind that my company gives one shit

it's quite simple

say happy holidays unless 1. it's the week of christmas or 2. the customer says merry christmas first. these are my rules for myself. THE COMPANY DOES NOT CARE NO ONE IS SAYING YOU CANNOT SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS

Location: I'm surprised you guys are so big on rap, considering it's the most masochistic music of any genre.

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i live in a neighborhood with a lot of jews and we had like one wrapping paper, kwanzaa might as well not exist even though the area is about 25% black, the store only closes for CHRISTMAS and EASTER (and thanksgiving) shut the fuck up about christmas there is no war

The Cole memo allowed states to legalise marijuana, and led to a blooming multi-billion dollar industry.

California just became the sixth state to allow recreational marijuana sales.

The Obama administration announced in 2013 that it would not stand in the way of states that wish to regulate using, selling, buying, and growing the drug, even though those activities are illicit on a federal level.

The memo announcing this policy shift - named for then-Deputy Attorney General James Cole - will be rescinded by the Department of Justice on Thursday, according to US media.

Washington (CNN) Democratic mega-donor and billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer bought every member of Congress a copy of Michael Wolff's controversial book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," he told San Francisco news outlet KQED on Friday.

"Judging by the excerpts, we went and bought 535 copies, and we're going to get citizen volunteers to deliver them to the office of every Congress person and senator," Steyer said.

Also...

Billionaire Tom Steyer pledged on Monday to spend $30 million through his NextGen America organization to help Democrats win congressional seats in the 2018 midterms.

Steyer, who has boosted his national profile with a recent series of television ads calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, said he won’t run for office himself in 2018. “That’s not where I can make the biggest difference,” he said at a news conference in Washington.

Even though Democrats are polling highly when it comes to the midterms (up double digits over Republicans), I'd caution against putting too much stock in that. These are all generic ballot polls, which don't take into account regional party identification, or the fact that only a third of Senate seats are even up for re-election.

I really hope Republicans lose the Congress, but it seems like the Democratic establishment is sticking to the same strategy of pushing the corporate democrats like Schumer, and ignoring actually progressive voices within the party, and it seems that campaigning to the right is what demotivated the left vote from getting out in 2016.